Gawen Drummond

1659 - Bef 1724  (< 65 years)

• Name	Gawen Drummond
  Birth	1659	Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland
  Baptism	19 Jun 1659	Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland   [1]
  	Witnesses: George Makclaine, George Wallace
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1682	Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland
  	Merchant
  Property	20 Feb 1681/82	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA   [2]
  	Purchase by lease and release from John Drummond of Lundin of 500 acres for £100 sterling, from Lundin's 1/24 of share of East Jersey
  Role	1684	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Fractioner
  Departure	11 Jun 1684	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland   [3, 4]
  	Aboard the Shield of Stockton
  	Note the inclusion of an incorrect record in 'Early Shipping to the Jersey Shore of the Delaware' by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr and Marion R Balderston contained in 'Passengers and ships prior to 1684 : reprints' (Genealogical Publishing Company (1970). This gives Gawen Drummond and Peter Bury arriving aboard the Shield of Stockton at Burlington in December 1677, mistakenly citing the recference in Nelson.
  Arrival	29 Sep 1684	Patuxent River, Maryland, USA
  Title Suffix	of Locharbor
  Name	Gavine Drummond
  Name	Gawine Drummond  [5]
  Property	6 Apr 1687	Monmouth, New Jersey, USA   [6]
  	Arranged the purchase of land from three sachems for one gun, five matchcoats, one kettle, and two pounds of powder
  Property	Dec 1688	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA   [7]
  	Deed, James Kilgour to Gawen Drummond, for his 30 acres of headland
  Residence	1689	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  Property	12 Mar 1688/89	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA   [7]
  	Deed, James Crighton to Gawen Drummond for the 30 acres of headland due him
  Property	19 Mar 1688/89	Monmouth, New Jersey, USA   [8, 9]
  	The Board of Proprietors granted Gawen a warrant to lay out 680 acres where he was already settled, including headland for imported servants and 80 acres for his nephew Robert
  Occupation	25 Mar 1701	Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA   [10]
  	Clerk of the Monmouth Court of Sessions, when, during a case against pirate Moses Butterworth, a local mob seized him, Governor Andrew Hamilton, two deputies, the two justices, Attorney General and Secretary
  Property	7 Apr 1704	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA   [11]
  	Purchased 300 acres from John Johnstone for a "competent soume of good and lawfull money". Deed witnessed by John Campbell, Thomas Edgar and Thomas Gordon
  Death	Bef 31 Aug 1724	Middlesex, New Jersey, USA   [12]
  Probate	31 Aug 1724	Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA   [12]
  	Administration granted to his son Gawen. Inventory dated 2 Aug 1728: £136 14s 10d, including books and seafaring instruments, made by Daniel Havens and Thomas Chambers
  Burial	Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA
  	Source: Marjorie Edelson (Ocean: Township of Ocean), An Historic Perspective of the Township of Ocean, Monmouth County, New Jersey. However, there are no Drummond grave stones in the cemetery and records were destroyed in the 1810 meetinghouse fire (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133073200/gavin-drummond). Friends Meeting House Burial Ground
  Person ID	I45169	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	7 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	Robert Drummond
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Isabel Melvine
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Abt 1655
  Family ID	F31307	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mary Layton,   b. 1668, Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA
  Family ID	F31331	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jul 2026

  
  

  Family 2	first wife (Drummond),   b. East Lothian, Scotland d. Abt 1688, East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  Children	1. Gawen Drummond,   b. Scotland d. 1748  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Robert Drummond,   b. Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. John Drummond   d. 1748, Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Isabel Drummond  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Sarah Drummond  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Rebecca Drummond  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F31566	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jul 2026

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1659 - Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland Baptism - 19 Jun 1659 - Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland Occupation - Merchant - 1682 - Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland Departure - Aboard the Shield of Stockton - 11 Jun 1684 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Arrival - 29 Sep 1684 - Patuxent River, Maryland, USA Property - Arranged the purchase of land from three sachems for one gun, five matchcoats, one kettle, and two pounds of powder - 6 Apr 1687 - Monmouth, New Jersey, USA Property - The Board of Proprietors granted Gawen a warrant to lay out 680 acres where he was already settled, including headland for imported servants and 80 acres for his nephew Robert - 19 Mar 1688/89 - Monmouth, New Jersey, USA Occupation - Clerk of the Monmouth Court of Sessions, when, during a case against pirate Moses Butterworth, a local mob seized him, Governor Andrew Hamilton, two deputies, the two justices, Attorney General and Secretary - 25 Mar 1701 - Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA Death - Bef 31 Aug 1724 - Middlesex, New Jersey, USA Probate - Administration granted to his son Gawen. Inventory dated 2 Aug 1728: £136 14s 10d, including books and seafaring instruments, made by Daniel Havens and Thomas Chambers - 31 Aug 1724 - Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA Burial - - Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3614] Births (OPR) Scotland, Prestonpans 718/100 17. [S3652] "Early Land Records, 1650-1900s", State of New Jersey, Department of State, Early Land Records, 1650-1900s, D(EJ): Folio 148-150 (SSTSE023). [S3758] Delafield, John Ross, Delafield, the Family History, volume II. pp499-500 [S3607] Nelson, William, Calendar of Records in the Office of the Secretary of State, 1664-1703, p172. [S3607] Nelson, William, Calendar of Records in the Office of the Secretary of State, 1664-1703, p201. [S3652] "Early Land Records, 1650-1900s", State of New Jersey, Department of State, Early Land Records, 1650-1900s, D(EJ): Folio 147-148 (SSTSE023). [S3607] Nelson, William, Calendar of Records in the Office of the Secretary of State, 1664-1703, p173. [S3720] Miller, George J., The Minutes of the Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey from 1685 to 1705, p183. [S3652] "Early Land Records, 1650-1900s", State of New Jersey, Department of State, Early Land Records, 1650-1900s, O(EJ): Folio 21-22 (PEASJ003). [S3824] Salter, Edwin, Old Times in Old Monmouth, pp263-264. [S3652] "Early Land Records, 1650-1900s", State of New Jersey, Department of State, Early Land Records, 1650-1900s, I (EJ): Folio 55 (SSTSE023). [S3542] Nelson, William, Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Volume 1, 1670-1730, p143.